The Apache ZooKeeper team has announced that Apache ZooKeeper release 3.5.3-beta is now available! This release is the first beta release of the 3.5 series, which cover 77 issues, thirteen of which were considered blockers. Here are some highlights:

New Feature

ZOOKEEPER-2719 Enable creation of TTL nodes, which are znode that’s not tied to a session and will get cleaned up automatically once expired.

Security Fixes

ZOOKEEPER-2014 Only admin roles should be allowed to reconfigure a cluster

The Apache Hadoop project announced the release of 3.0.0-alpha2 on January 25th, 2017. This is the second alpha release in the 3.0.0 release series leading up to 3.0.0 GA, and incorporates 857 new fixes, improvements, and features since 3.0.0-alpha1 last September. It’s worth reading our previous blog post about 3.0.0-alpha1; in this post, we’ll discuss the new improvements that landed in alpha2.

Classpath Isolation for Hadoop Client Jars

The pain of classpath isolation has been experienced by many Java developers.

After the GA of Apache Kudu in Cloudera CDH 5.10, we take a look at the Apache Spark on Kudu integration, share code snippets, and explain how to get up and running quickly, as Kudu is already a first-class citizen in Spark’s ecosystem.

As the Apache Kudu development team celebrates the initial 1.0 release launched on September 19, and the most recent 1.2.0 version now GA as part of Cloudera’s CDH 5.10 release,